Meteor Break Megathread

[itsdanphipps]

I'm starting a thread! For my Gygax75 variant setting! It's called Meteor Break and it's about that time the immortal aristocracy blew up the moon and a lunar elf city crash landed and now it's where all the cool adventurers hang out.

When I started writing it this section of the forum didn't exist so it's all here right now: https://cohost.org/itsdanphipps/post/38 ... break-pt-1

You can edit posts right? I'll fix this later when I'm at my computer.

Edit: Tony asked why Meteor Break has good surfing and I answered in a TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRQcdmES/

[itsdanphipps]

The absolute hubris of calling this a Megathread, if this ends up a normal sized thread they're gonna run me out of town.

[Authenticity Trip]

Oh shit, science fantasy is my absolute JAM and make no mistake. I haven't been paying attention to the gygax75 stuff, can you tell me more about this??

[itsdanphipps]

I can!

The original challenge is a bunch of words Gary Gygax said in 1975 about how to make a campaign setting broken up into weekly tasks. It's free on itch and it's pretty good!

https://rayotus.itch.io/gygax75

I hit a pretty significant roadblock in week 3 because the idea is to make this huge fucking dungeon but I don't... Need one? So now I'm taking all that stuff and kind of messing with the format with the goal of getting to a session zero as quickly as possible.

[forktwenty]

Yoooo dan this looks KILLER, love the art & all the stuff you're pulling from!

[itsdanphipps]

Thank you! My goal over the Thanksgiving weekend is to get enough anti-canon bits and bobs to pick a system and do a session zero or two so I can start wandering from discord to discord like the merchant from resident evil 4 offering to run one shots and build out the living world. Also I added a TikTok. Also my whole house is sick so probably I'll do this later.

[itsdanphipps]

Meteor Break Icons representing The Idiotic, Destructive Power of the Hyper Wealthy

Event: The Waning. The autumn parade from the top of the city to the earth carrying the preserved corpse of the last moon elf king via palenquin, mourning the death of the moon and the founding of Loch Syzygy. It culminates in a feast to new beginnings and the future.

Landmark: The Vector Building. Downtown skyscraper of steel and glass evoking a rocket launch. Indirectly owned by multiple aristocratic houses, it is the foothold of the immortal aristocracy in the city.

Person: Nicolai Stone, CEO of Syzyrgy Liquidations. Former partner of a larger private military company who left abruptly and on bad terms to seize an opportunity to operate out of Loch Syzygy.

Creature: Blight Ochre. Industrial magic byproducts left to accumulate and gain life. Shared enemy of Fungal Bellringers and Forest Folk (though they differ greatly in approach).

Treasure: Telemetry Records of The Basilisk. A magnetic tape from the godhunter craft that shot the moon in pursuit of a new god. Contains both evidence of the house that funded the act and indicates where that god hid. Any house of the immortal aristocracy would kill to get their hands on it. The Loch Syzygy Council could use it to demand reparations, to know who pulled the trigger and destroyed their ancestral home.

Secret: Envoys of House Ecliptic are meeting in secret with the Terminal Authority board of directors to establish a shell company and smuggle goods in and out of the city.

[Binary]

I asked this on Cohost too but does that Event/Landmark/Person/Creature/Treasure/Secret combo come from anywhere in particular? It's a great vibe check.

[itsdanphipps]

Ah shoot i forgot to put it two places lmao

OK what I'm doing is here: https://cohost.org/itsdanphipps/post/47 ... hipps-23-w

[Binary]

Hmmm...start with 4 "about" prompts, skip one of the Icons for one of them, and you'll end up with 23 setting components.